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Dioscorea nummularia

Botanic Family

Dioscoreaceae

Author

Lamarck

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Australia
• Borneo
• Fiji
• Andaman Islands - India
• Java
• Maluku
• Sulawesi - Indonesia
• Moluccas
• New Hebrides
• Bismarck Archipelago
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Tahiti
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Woodland. Stem used for cordage

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Glabrous anticlockwise tuberous twiner with basally spiny stems, rarely aerial tubers, long cylindrical roots thick as a man's arm, mucronate leavesto 110mm x 90mm, axillary & terminal spikes or panicles males to 40mm long, female to 150mm long, red yam. Capsule with wings to 20mm x 22mm

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• net
• JPS
• The Plant List 2
• Elmer
• FV
• JAA
• Flora Malesiana
• Kew